Whitman Magazine

Do you have a great story to tell alumni and other key audiences? Tell it through the Whitman Magazine!

Contacts

Lana Brown, editor and associate director of communications, brownll@whitman.edu 527-5169, Memorial 312-B
Keith Raether, writer, raethekr@whitman.edu 527-4917, Memorial 312D
Backup: Ruth Wardwell, director of communications, wardwers@whitman.edu 527-5768, Memorial 312A

Whitman Magazine is published four times a year, in July, December and March, with a President’s Report/Gift Report issue in October. The magazine’s news, features and photography illustrate and celebrate the Whitman story. It is designed to inform Whitman’s constituents about the life of the college and our alumni, and to entice them to maintain a lifetime connection to the college. Constituent groups who receive the magazine include alumni, donors, trustees, overseers, parents, faculty, staff and friends.

Here’s how it works

The Communications staff develops story ideas for Whitman Magazine months in advance of each publication. For the campus news section, we keep a careful eye on campus events and activities, tracking potential stories. As the story list for each publication develops, we seek input from faculty and staff and determine which ones will appear in the magazine. We encourage staff, faculty, students and alumni to offer suggestions about potential stories and photo opportunities to supplement our own research and analysis. For the feature section in each edition, we look to cover trends and major campus developments and to reflect Whitman to our readers. Over time, we will represent the depth and diversity of the liberal arts education at Whitman and the experience of being a part of the Whitman family. For more information, contact Editor Lana Brown at brownll@whitman.edu or at x5169.

In order to produce a professional product for our readers, we use only the highest quality photos. Occasionally, we will use high-quality submitted photos to illustrate a story, for instance, a student’s Study Abroad experience. Address technical questions about photo submissions to photo@whitman.edu or call x5969.

It’s important to know that...

There are seemingly endless stories to be told about Whitman, its students, programs, faculty, staff, facilities, alumni and more. Unfortunately, the magazine can showcase only a limited number of stories in each edition.